I know that's Shadow the Hedgehog but I'm pretty lost about the rest of those posts. Is he a gun wielding clone? I thought he was just one of Sonic's pals. Like all people of taste and refinement I haven't played a Sonic game for a very long time.

This confusion must be my comeuppance for feeling smug about getting the Natalie Wood and Lord Lucan jokes.

I know that's Shadow the Hedgehog but I'm pretty lost about the rest of those posts. Is he a gun wielding clone? I thought he was just one of Sonic's pals. Like all people of taste and refinement I haven't played a Sonic game for a very long time.

This confusion must be my comeuppance for feeling smug about getting the Natalie Wood and Lord Lucan jokes.

The game literally called Shadow the Hedgehog has him wielding a gun on the front cover. He also says "drat" a few times because he's """tortured by his mysterious past""" and people were supposed to be very impressed by how dark and edgy the game is.

I can't even remember how I was exposed to that game, but someone should recommend a decent LP of that game because it is something.

also to draw more parallels this series has early games that people remember fondly because of nostalgic cherrypicking but they're actually mostly-terrible games designed by idiots who have never known what the gently caress they're doing

This HM will probably be the Generations of the series, which means the next game will be the Sonic Boom of Hitman

also to draw more parallels this series has early games that people remember fondly because of nostalgic cherrypicking but they're actually mostly-terrible games designed by idiots who have never known what the gently caress they're doing

This HM will probably be the Generations of the series, which means the next game will be the Sonic Boom of Hitman

Hah when you put that way, yeah it does kinda make sense. Wait hold on, didn't we already get our Sonic boom with Absolution?

I don't think it was the Colors or Unleash at all.

Then again the only thing I did like it was how it controlled but everything else was meh.

Sorry, I'm pretty sure that's going to be impossible when it's announced Mission 3 takes place in Spring Yard Zone

I'm personally just hoping for a Shadow mascot costume DLC. The costume is like the horrible chipmunk outfit from Absolution, but it constantly plays lines from the dark n' gritty time-traveling hedgehog as you try to sneak around. Alternately, a Crush 40 soundtrack.

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at Mar 7, 2016 around 19:12

A fanbase with really horrific taste: check.
Really bad linear levels set in old west canyons: check.

I'm personally just hoping for a Shadow mascot costume DLC. The costume is like the horrible chipmunk outfit from Absolution, but it constantly plays lines from the dark n' gritty time-traveling hedgehog as you try to sneak around. Alternately, a Crush 40 soundtrack.

ehh i still like hitman But your not wrong. The series is the video game equivalent to Cannon films. Violent as gently caress with hosed up sense of morality and weird issues with women and most other people. But its fun and i dig that kind stuff if its well done (which most of the hitman games are) absolution is basically a Charles Bronson film.

it's notable that the sonic franchise as a whole has basically been a big ripoff of other franchises (sonic in general is basically just furry DBZ) so you might be putting the cart before the horse here

Ask me about running my country straight into the ground every time I play EU4 multiplayer.

I don't think the Hitman series has ever tried portraying 47 as cool or badass since they certainly show he's completely anti social and lame outside of killing people, the beta especially hammered that point in.

I think that's what mainly prevents Hitman from being edgy. That and they don't take themselves too seriously.

Also I feel blind as hell because the Agency logo has never looked like anything to me. I kinda like it as a clean icon on the desktop but I have no actual idea what it's supposed to be, if it's anything beyond "check out this neat thing our graphic designer made in their first week here". It's also worth noting that I am the actual factual worst at comprehending optical illusions or even just plain minimalist art.

Also I feel blind as hell because the Agency logo has never looked like anything to me. I kinda like it as a clean icon on the desktop but I have no actual idea what it's supposed to be, if it's anything beyond "check out this neat thing our graphic designer made in their first week here". It's also worth noting that I am the actual factual worst at comprehending optical illusions or even just plain minimalist art.

I don't get the obsession with blood and gore in Hitman. The more blood there is in a Hitman mission the more you're playing it wrong.

Hitman is a series that has an explicit focal point of "murder people (typically stereotypes of the ethnic/sexual variety) in spectacular, elaborate and/or impressive ways as a bald white macho pig man", and systemically facilitates reactive mass murder, especially with the addition of BM's newspapers, law of averages says it's going to attract some massive creeps. IOI and Square's tonal confusion definitely hasn't helped matters.

That's not to say enjoying playing Hitman "wrong" isn't fun, just that some people are a teensy bit obsessed with making it into a genuine murder simulator instead of a freeform wacky ragdoll video game funtimes simulator.

Steam is offering the Intro pack for 15 bucks, how much is the upgrade for the other levels?

If you don't get the full experience ($60) up front, each additional level will cost you $10. Bought separately everything should be $65, assuming five more locations at $10 each, which is also what the $50 upgrade pack is.

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

From what I could play before getting fed up with Hitman: Miami it felt really nice to have a modern AAA Hitman game that has budget for little bits of polish like guards turning you away with different lines depending on your outfit and other little stuff like that.

e: is it possible to kill targets with only the sniper rifle in BM without resorting to a) super cheese like shooting them in the back or sedating them and shooting them later or b) getting your cover blown

StashAugustine fucked around with this message at Mar 8, 2016 around 16:47

e: is it possible to kill targets with only the sniper rifle in BM without resorting to a) super cheese like shooting them in the back or sedating them and shooting them later or b) getting your cover blown

Tried sniping the groom in till death do us part and there's too many bulletproof bushes in the way which is the worst kind of bullshit, they obviously didn't want you sniping the first target too easily so their solution was "stick Kevlar bushes everywhere".

If you try and take the shot from anywhere you're blocked and everyone instantly sees you and blows your cover.
Death of crows lets you snipe mark purchezzi III but there' s no good vantage points for the other targets that won't get you seen.
A new life lets you snipe the witness if you ring his house phone and take the shot from the garage across the road.

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

That one I'd be willing to accept just shooting out the hot tub. The one I was having trouble with is in the first mission the dude in the cellar doesn't seem to go anywhere you can get a clean shot without having the entire level see you put together the gun.

There's a super special, super popular thing called spaghetti that I want to try!

Lipstick Apathy

I'm trying to play Hitman 2 again and I can't. It's too clunky and the guards are way too twitchy and trigger happy. I loving loved this game when I was 15 but I guess there really isn't a reason to go back with BM existing

Yep, Hitman 2 is frustrating. The dreadfully slow sneak-move speed, the tedium of the chloroform, the wire; everything's just harder to do and feels less rewarding. Not to mention the way that nobody gives a poo poo if you run or walk in your suit, but as soon as you start running in anything else it's OK to start shooting you up. That was one of the most misguided aspects of the disguise system that was very thankfully fixed in Blood Money.

I think it's just a product of the time. Hitman 1 had no "suspicion" meter at all - so long as you had a disguise you were invisible to guards, unless you do something that invalidates it like kill someone or get spotted in an area where the costume doesn't work, in which case, that disguise is now blown forever.

Hitman 2 was their attempt to try to find a middle ground, and they overtuned it, but they didn't really have anything to compare it to. By Blood Money they'd already had two shots at enemy suspicion between Silent Assassin and Contracts, so they had a better idea of how to tweak it by that point.

That one I'd be willing to accept just shooting out the hot tub. The one I was having trouble with is in the first mission the dude in the cellar doesn't seem to go anywhere you can get a clean shot without having the entire level see you put together the gun.

sprint over to the burnt out truck but knock out the guard first. climb onto the roof and sprint toward the pipe, drop down and go up the pipe, assemble wa2000 and its p obv from here. use ap rounds to shoot the son, best to time it when you see the top of the cellar doors open and shoot him through two sets of doors